Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate changes. If the prime were to gallop from 8% to 20.5%, as it did between 1978 and 1981, someone now paying 9.75% on a home-equity loan might suddenly have to pay 22.25%. Such a whopping increase is possible because many equity loans lack the so-called caps common to ordinary variable- rate mortgages, which limit interest-rate hikes to two percentage points or so a year...
...agrees that if Congress intended the amendment to apply to "other than those persons connected with official intelligence agencies, it could and should have said so." But many experts agree with Tribe that NSC officials were clearly "acting as intelligence agents." Even Robert McFarlane testified that it was his "common-sense judgment" that the law applied to the NSC, which he headed...
...characterized the attack ; as a "single, horrible error on the part of the Iraqi pilot" who mistook the frigate for an Iranian tanker. Iraq's President Saddam Hussein promptly sent an apology to the U.S. "I hope this unintentional incident," he wrote, "will not affect our relations and the common desire to establish peace and stability in the region." The Iraqis also agreed to pay compensation to the families of the victims and reparations for damages to the $180 million ship...
Sometimes Phillips is almost willful in her virtuosity, and sometimes she is borne along too easily on waves of rhythmic prose. Nevertheless, her range is considerably greater than is common among her despair-addicted contemporaries, as is her fugitive grace. Where Ann Beattie's characters, for instance, are habitually on Valium, Phillips' are generally on speed; while Beattie's have surrendered to nothingness, Phillips' are still in search of something. Nearly all the stories in Fast Lanes are, like their characters, fascinated with gymnasts, tightrope walkers and others who find ways to steady and ground themselves. And the best...
WHAT DO a .41 caliber revolver, a Hispanic social worker who knows her theories of capitalism and class struggle very well, and 300 kilos of cocaine have in common...